Erich Heckel *
(Döbeln 1883–1970 Hemmenhofen/Bodensee)
Lesende (Reading Woman), 1921, signed, dated and titled Erich Heckel 21, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper, 56 x 35.1 cm, framed
Photo-Certificate:
Renate Ebner, Nachlass Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen, 2014
The work is registered in the archive of the Erich Heckel Nachlass, Hemmenhofen.
We thank Renate Ebner, Nachlass Erich Heckel, for her support in cataloguing this work.
Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection
Sale, Sotheby‘s, London, 24 June 2014, lot 340
Private Collection, Germany (acquired at the above)
Exhibited:
Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Expresionismo en Alemania: exposición conmemorativa del 10. aniversario de la fundación de la Asociación Cultural Humboldt, November–December 1959, exhib-cat. Caracas 1959, no. 10 with b/w-ill.
“Characteristic of Heckel’s style in the 1920s is […] the clarity, the structured, precise form, and the implied calm and stillness of things – means of expression through which he approaches the stylistic ambitions of the New Objectivity artists […].”
Magdalena M. Moeller, Erich Heckel: His Work of the 1920s, Munich 2004, p. 11
Specialist: Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
(Döbeln 1883–1970 Hemmenhofen/Bodensee)
Lesende (Reading Woman), 1921, signed, dated and titled Erich Heckel 21, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper, 56 x 35.1 cm, framed
Photo-Certificate:
Renate Ebner, Nachlass Erich Heckel, Hemmenhofen, 2014
The work is registered in the archive of the Erich Heckel Nachlass, Hemmenhofen.
We thank Renate Ebner, Nachlass Erich Heckel, for her support in cataloguing this work.
Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection
Sale, Sotheby‘s, London, 24 June 2014, lot 340
Private Collection, Germany (acquired at the above)
Exhibited:
Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Expresionismo en Alemania: exposición conmemorativa del 10. aniversario de la fundación de la Asociación Cultural Humboldt, November–December 1959, exhib-cat. Caracas 1959, no. 10 with b/w-ill.
“Characteristic of Heckel’s style in the 1920s is […] the clarity, the structured, precise form, and the implied calm and stillness of things – means of expression through which he approaches the stylistic ambitions of the New Objectivity artists […].”
Magdalena M. Moeller, Erich Heckel: His Work of the 1920s, Munich 2004, p. 11
Specialist: Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
